I’m so excited to announce my poem “Bodies are Secrets,” was published in Oyedrum’s Volume 4. This issue is stunning and I’m so pleased with the exquisite artwork by Lisa Marie Vlietstra paired with my poem. Make sure to follow her on Instagram at Self Love and All Colors […]
Never a Contest is a substack email newsletter and online promotion project to showcase poets who have not yet won a literary contest or published a full-length book or chapbook. Each monthly publication is curated by poet, writer, and musician Brandon North and features poems previously published by […]
Literary Mama is open for submissions year round. They publish literary writing about the many faces of motherhood. Since 2003, they have celebrated “the physical, psychological, intellectual, and spiritual processes of becoming a mother through words and images that may be so stark it hurts.” If you aren’t […]
OutWrite is a celebration of LGBTQ literature, held annually the first weekend in August in Washington, D.C. The 2021 festival will be August 6-8, 2021. This year they are running their third annual chapbook contest for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that explore some aspect of the queer experience, […]
BigCityLit is an online literary magazine founded over twenty years ago publishing fiction, creative non-fiction (personal essay, book reviews), and poetry. They are currently open for submissions and would love to see more prose submissions. You can check out their current issue to see what types of work […]
Tipping the Scales is a new lesbian literary and arts journal by lesbians/for lesbians. They offer print, e-book, and PDF versions of their issues published quarterly. They are currently open for poetry, fiction, nonfiction, flash fiction, photography, and art. Feminist leaning lit mags and journals are some of […]
Lucky Jefferson is an online literary journal founded in 2018 currently open for two submission calls. The first call for submission Lucky Jefferson is excited to share is for their digital zine Awake for Black authors. Issue 3 “Our Power” explores BLACK RESILIENCY. Selected works in this issue will embrace and […]
Mom Egg Review is currently open for submissions for both their print issue and online feature MER VOX; and early birds can submit for free during this first week or until they hit their Submittable limit. They are looking for work for an issue themed “Mother Figures”—works that grapple with […]
Cider Press Review is quarterly online poetry journal originally founded in 1999. They are open year-round for submissions of book reviews and their current poetry call has a deadline of May 31, 2021. They also publish the manuscript winners of the annual Cider Press Review Book Award and […]
Woolgathering Review is a new international online literary magazine currently accepting prose, poetry, and art. Their first issue is now live to peruse and get a feel for what they like to publish. For more information, see my interview with Editor Tara Tulshyan with a link to submission […]
